Race and crime : geographies of injustice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Brown, Elizabeth, 1976- (Author), Barganier, George, 1976- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Racism in criminology > United States. Criminal justice, Administration of > United States. Imprisonment > United States. Human geography > United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Race, crime, and justice: definitions and context
Race, colonialism, and the emergence of racial democracy
The history of racial science: social science and the birth of criminology
Social problems and the U.S. racial state
Housing inequality and the geography of residential racial segregation
The problem of urban America: race and the emergence of mass incarceration
Policing the city
The colonial order of the court
Imprisoning race: from slavery to the prison
"Race to execution": lynching, mass incarceration, and the resurgence of the death penalty
Conclusion: futures of race and crime?